... if Russian undergraduates are hacking into our computers. Aware of this, the SIS seek to impress us with its 'relevance' overseas - protecting us from terrorism, drug cartels and the rest, a job better done by the police - as well as internally. For this reason, the public is told:'.....fraud investigators from the Benefit Agency are being taught how to use surveillance techniques by former SAS and MI6 officers. The company, AMA Associates, a security agency, has coached nearly 1000 government fraud officers on a Professionalism in Security (PINS) course accredited by Portsmouth university....... ' (1 ) Abroad, ...

... the fact that the case was sub judice, Nadir was held in parts of the press to be the biggest financial crook of modern times, a man who had built a business empire simply by means of smoke and mirrors. Alternatively, it was suggested that he was the victim of various plots. The alleged perpetrators ranged from the Serious Fraud Office, eager to justify themselves and make up for the near debacle of the Guinness trial by nailing a big fish, to the Greek government, in alliance with the Greek Cypriots. These were held to be politically motivated and had brought Nadir down because of the hostility existing between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. This was the explanation that ...

... .html> realised there were further ballots from their allocated batch still to be counted. The ballots were at all times on the count floor awaiting counting. The media present at the count were immediately briefed, they understood the situation, and did not think it significant to report. ' As shown by the current investigations into Tory expenses fraud during the 2015 election campaign,4 there are legitimate reasons to be sceptical about the results. The stories discussed above, however, are not legitimate reasons for scepticism. But no doubt, that van-full of votes will be trundling along the highways and byways of conspiratorial legend for years to come. Mind games of the rich ...

... establishment, Mills is married to Tessa Jowell, the Culture Minister and is a friend of both Alastair Campbell, New Labour's communications supremo, with whom he plays golf, and Peter Mandelson, the 'onlie begetter' of New Labour. Mills has suffered various public embarrassments since the mid-nineties, when his offices were raided by the Serious Fraud Office searching for papers relating to investigations by Italian magistrates into allegations of corrupt financial practices by Berlusconi. Mills had acted as Berlusconi's lawyer in the deals. There was no suggestion at the time that Mills had done anything illegal; but there was the added embarrassment that his sister-in-law, Dame Barbara Mills, had recently ...

... that awesome? A year and a half after they were minutes away from bankruptcy, how are these assholes not only back on their feet again, but hauling in bonuses at the same rate they were during the bubble? The answer to that question is basically twofold: They raped the taxpayer, and they raped their clients. ' 13 Fraud Inc W hile this issue was being prepared the US SEC announced a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs, essentially for fraud. It is an interesting symbolic step but it is not a criminal complaint, merely a civil one, and will take years to trundle through the courts. But the fact that this step had been taken has been the ...

... (Issue 39) Summer 2000 Last | Contents | Next Issue 39 Europe Inc: Regional and Global Restructuring and the Rise of Corporate Power Belén Balanyá, Ann Doherty, Olivier Hoedeman, Adam Ma'anit and Erik Wessselius Pluto Press, London and Sterling (Virginia, USA) 2000, 14.99 Blowing the Whistle: one man's fight against fraud in the European Commission Paul van Buitenen London: Politicos, 2000, 12.99 In his memoir, In Office,(1 ) Norman Lamont describes meeting Wim Kok, the Dutch Finance Minister, at one of the many European Union meetings Lamont attended in his roles as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

... .1 5 As one historian of the FBI has observed: 'by exaggerating the danger of organized vice, portraying it as a real menace to the American society, and by broadly interpreting the law, the Bureau in its formative years succeeded in expanding in size and jurisdiction from an obscure and subordinate government bureau, primarily engaged in examining bank frauds and anti-trust violations, to a growing and influential bureaucracy, engaged in sensational and headline-stealing cases'.16 With the Bureau's leadership, the Mann Act became a powerful legal weapon – and thus blackmail threat – against any unmarried couple who crossed state lines to have sex. In its early years, the Bureau also ...

... , verbatim, that elections cannot be allowed to change established economic policy. In other words, that democracy is fine as long as it does not threaten to change anything! While I was expecting that to be the overall motif, I was not prepared to have it spelled out so bluntly. '4 2 Former City of London Police Fraud Squad officer, Rowan Bosworth-Davis:4 3 'Your children cannot buy a house in London because the criminal banks prefer Russian dirty money...... .. .. .. Property prices have escalated way beyond the hopes and ambitions of ordinary men and women, and London has quickly become the stamping ground for ...

... living in America where the Republicans have taken 'the centre' the space within which Hitchens works as a self-styled contrarian so far to the right. There's not much of a living to made in America by being a lefty writer, is there? Hitchens' writing is collected at <www.hitchensweb.com/>. Vote fraud 2004 Meanwhile, more or less unreported by the major media on either side of the Atlantic, the evidence of the Republican theft of the 2004 presidential election is massive and unanswerable. The theft is a political fact. As the Democratic Party leadership is unwilling to deal with this for fear of being attacked by the media, the 2008 ...

... -magazine.co.uk (Issue 22) November 1991 Last | Contents | Next Issue 22 Lundy: The Destruction of Scotland Yard's Finest Detective Martin Short Grafton, London, 1991 Scotland Yard's Cocaine Connection Andrew Jennings, Paul Lashmar and Vyv Simson Arrow, London, 1991 The sixties media guru Marshall McLuhan is nowadays generally derided as a fraud.I suspect that most people would found it difficult to accept his statement that television is not a visual medium. However, the more one thinks about that bizarre idea the more its truth is revealed. Watch any documentary or news item on television and you will be hard pressed to find a visual image that is not signposted by ...